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Researchers find Alzheimer's-like brain changes in long Covid patients

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Re: Researchers find Alzheimer's-like brain changes in long Covid patients

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Post by fao_ »

throwaway2037 wrote: post #88
fao_ wrote: post #48

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The reason for that is around 30 - 50 years of continual gutting of the NHS, aggressive implementation of perverse incentives and anti-targets (e.g. "hospitals get less money if they fail to meet X standard of care, because they do not have enough money"), and overloading of staff duties to reduce costs (e.g. Physicians now performing duties that receptionists used to handle, the lack of work force meaning they have…

> 30 - 50 years of continual gutting of the NHS The date range feels a bit arbitrary here. The difference between 30 and 50 years is enormous. Also, I will get no love for this comment: Highly developed nations have no one to blame but their own democracy for failing to stop the slide. Why hasn't the same decline happened in Denmark or Japan or most other highly developed democratic nations?

There are multiple places that you can point at and go "this was the place where the NHS started getting gutted", it's entirely dependent on where you draw the line. There was an interval where it wasn't entirely obvious that this was happening, as well. Hindsight is 20/20.

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Post by NemoNobody »

phkahler wrote: post #172
refulgentis wrote: post #14

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The spike is a sigil that induces a cell to say "Oh cool! You have the ACE2 passcode! Let me inject you into me, virus!" A replica of a key doesn't start a car: you need an engine too.

No, the spike proteins have been shown to do damage. They aren't just a key. And yeah sorry I don't have a reference, I quit even thinking about Covid after my 3rd round.

3 rounds?? I got the original strain that went thru the US - I've only had it once. I just blood test done not too long ago and I still have measurable antibodies 3 years later, a low count - I'm due for a booster but I've never been vaccinated.

Re: Researchers find Alzheimer's-like brain changes in long Covid patients

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Post by causality0 »

salawat wrote: post #185
hypertele-Xii wrote: post #123

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Or a passage from the holy Bible. The wisdom of the wise men will perish. Isaiah 29:14 For it is written: "I will make the wisdom of the wise men perish, and the intelligence of the intellectuals I will reject." 1. Corinthians 1:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, for it is written: "He catches the wise in their own cunning." 1. Corinthians 3:19 The wise have been put to shame. They have become t…

Isaiah, being Old Testament, is more about the defense of Jerusalem, and given even in the most literal interpretation, Israelis are as screwed as anyone else, I'll say some serious verse/context cherrypicking is going on here. Corinthians, in the New Testament, as far as it is relevant has a better standing, coming from the standpoint of illustrating that Wisdom as it is to the Almighty looks entirely different to W…

Isn't everything set in stone from God's perspective? He knows everything that has happened, is happening, and will happen. Including his own actions, presumably, so he's more of an omnipotent record-player than an intelligent being that makes decisions.

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Post by soulofmischief »

emmelaich wrote: post #155
soulofmischief wrote: post #124

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I haven't specifically been checked for MS, though I have had a decently comprehensive array of tests done over the last decade before discovering I've had early-onset gout since my teens and it's likely that MS is something my doctors considered. Why do you ask?

Mono is caused by Epstein-Barr virus, which is also strongly implicated in MS. Perhaps you can get a single attack of MS but not get (many) more. Certainly fatigue is one symptom of MS. Blurred / double vision is another.

Interesting. I believe over 90% of Americans contract mononucleosis by adulthood, so is there something about contracting it later in life which could potentially increase the likelihood of developing MS?

Almost all of my friends had contracted it as young children, when the virus apparently is less destructive. Thus, my experience of mono at 18, and with a compromised immune system, was considerably more severe than anything experienced by those I spoke to.

I was unable to do anything but lay on someone's couch for 6 months. I was homeless and couldn't work due to the severity of the disease and risk of spreading it, and so I had to steal food in order to live. It's unsurprising that the aftermath was equally unpleasant.

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Post by highcountess »

shlant wrote: post #148
highcountess wrote: post #130

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I can tell you are bad faith because you either a. haven't done the most basic research to figure out the answer to that question or b. have and don't like the answer so you go around Just Asking Questions.

To repurpose an iconic phrase: You are quite zealous about knowing so much that just is not so. I asked a question and that caused your model of self and cognitive dissonance trigger to have struck a full scale alarm for some reason.

I encountered you types when I opposed the Iraq war and am therefore not responsible for mass murder and destruction and knew there were no WMDs too, but your intellectual brethren back then (perhaps yourself even) were also just as zealous about knowing what they know that was flashed on their brains through trauma just as today. Do you see no problem with the fact that it was the same plundering, lying, deceiving, evil, murderous government you now also just believe and fall in line with?

Why are you so fearful? Which of course it is, since no one with courage simply does and believes unquestioningly that which is most servile to there abusers.

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Post by creativenolo »

School-Cotton wrote: post #60
creativenolo wrote: post #19

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It is not clear from your comment why always doing it would not be clickbait-like. I am sure even the majority of Americans would assume that when the letters “UK” are used in isolation, it would mean the country and not a state university.

I meant they are not trying to trick people into clicking the link by using the term “UK” because it’s obvious from the context what they mean, since they consistently use the term. I agree that it’s a bad headline for HN where you don’t know the context, but that doesn’t mean they chose the headline with ill intent.

It’s not ill intent to have your article seen by as many people as possible. I find it hard to believe they have never considered there is an added benefit to publishing, on a world wide medium, the term UK.

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Post by [deleted] »

causality0 wrote: post #193
salawat wrote: post #185

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Isaiah, being Old Testament, is more about the defense of Jerusalem, and given even in the most literal interpretation, Israelis are as screwed as anyone else, I'll say some serious verse/context cherrypicking is going on here. Corinthians, in the New Testament, as far as it is relevant has a better standing, coming from the standpoint of illustrating that Wisdom as it is to the Almighty looks entirely different to W…

Isn't everything set in stone from God's perspective? He knows everything that has happened, is happening, and will happen. Including his own actions, presumably, so he's more of an omnipotent record-player than an intelligent being that makes decisions.

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